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tions are probably those of the blood- 
hound, the setter, and the mastive, or 
bandogge, the second, with a portion 
of the last of which we shall extract. 
“ The Dogge culled the Setier, in Laiine, 
Index. 
« Another sort of dogges be there, 
serviceable for fowling, making no notse 
either with foote or with tounge, whiles 
they followe the game. These attend 
diligently upon. theyr master, and frame 
their conditions to such beckes, mouons, 
and gestures, as it shall please him to 
exhibite and make, either going forward, 
drawing backward, inclining to the right 
hand, or yealding toward the left. (In 
making mencion of fowles, my meaning 
is of the partridge and the quale.) When 
he hath founde the byrde, he keepeth 
sure and fast silence; he stayeil his 
steppes and wil proceede no further ; and 
with a close, couert, watcning eye, layeth 
his belly to the grounde and so ereepetn 
forward like a worme. When he ap- 
proacheth neere to, the place where the 
birde is, he layes him downe, and with a 
marcke of his pawes betrayeth the place 
of the byrde’s last abode; whereby it is 
supposed that this kind of doggé is called 
index, sctter, being in Geede a name 
most consonant and agreable to his qua- 
lity. The place bemg knowne by the 
meanes of the dogge, the fowler imme- 
diately openeth and spreadeth his net, 
intendmg to take them; which bemg 
done, the dogge at the aceastomed becke 
or usual signe of his master, ryseth up by 
and by, and draweth neerer to the fowle, 
that by his presence they might be the 
authors of their own ensnaring, and be 
ready intangied in the prepared net ; 
which conning and artificial indeuour in 
a doyge (being a creature domesticall or 
housholde scrvaunt, brought up at home 
with offalls of the trencher and fragments 
of victualls,) is net much to be maruailed 
at, seeing tuat a hare (being a wilde and 
~skippishe beast) was scene in England, 
to the astonishment of the beholders, in 
the yeere of our Lorde God 1564, not 
onély dauncing in measure, but playing 
with his former feete uppon a tabberet, 
and observing just number of strokes (as 
@ practitioner im that arte,) besides that 
nipping and pivching a dogge, with his 
teeth and clawes, and cruelly thumping 
him-with the force of his feete *.- This 
* * The coincidence between, this anecdote 
and that relating to one of the hares which 
Cowper the poet endeavoured to cemesticate, 
is remarkable, 
The Antiquary:—No. KPT. 
[Feb. 1, 
is no trumpery tale, no trifling toye (as I 
imagine) and therefore not unworthy to 
be reported; for I reckon it-a requittall 
of iny trauaile, hot to drowne in the seas 
of silence any speciall thing, wherein thé 
prouidence and effectual working of na- 
ture is to be pondered.” 
In the account ‘ of the mastive or 
bandogve, called in Latine, Villaticus, or 
Cathenarius,”’ we have one or two anec- 
dotes of Henry the Seventh, which are 
certainly not related by the generality of 
historians who have written on his 
reign. ; ; 
“ Our Englishmen,” says Caius, “ (to 
th’ intent that theyr doves might be the 
more fell and fearce) assist nature with 
arte, vse, and custome, for they teach 
theyr dogees to baite the beare, to bait 
the bull, and other such like eruell and 
bloudy beastes, (appointing an overseer 
of the game,) without any collar to defend 
theyr throtes; and oftentimes they traine 
them up in fighting and wrestling with a 
man, having for the safegarde of his lyfe, 
eyther a pikestaffe, a clubbe, or a swoerde, 
and by vsing them to such exercises as 
these, theyr dogses become more sturdy 
and strong. ‘The force which is in them 
surmount th all beleefe, the fast holde 
which they take with their teeth excted- 
eth all credit: three of them against a 
beare, fowre against a lyon, are sufficient, 
beth to trye masteryes with them, and 
vtterly to overmatch them, Which thing 
Henry, the seventh of that name, king of 
England, (a prince both politique and 
warlike), perceiving on a certaine time 
(as report. runneth) commaunded all such 
degges (how many soever they were m 
number) to be hanged, beying deepely 
displeased, and conceauing greate dis- 
daine, that an yll fauoured raseall curre 
should with such violent villainy assault 
the valiaunt lyon, king of all beastes. An 
example for all subjectes worthy of re~ 
inembrance, to admenishe them that it is 
no advantage to them to rebell against 
the regiment of their ruler, but to keepe 
them within the limits of loyaltie. [ 
reede an history aunswerable to this of 
the self same Henry,-who having a nota- 
ble and an excellent fayre falcon, it fore 
tuned that the king’s falconers, in the 
presence and bearing of his grace, highly 
commended his majesty’s falcon, saying, 
that it feared not to intermeddle with an 
eagle, it was so venturous a byrde and so 
mighty; which when the kinge harde, he 
charged that the falcon should be killed 
without delay, for the selfe same reason 
(as it may seeme) which was rehersed in 
iandeeny conclusion 
